Revenge of the hacks
Union must be hacked off by all the hacking puns.
This may be old news to some, but at the start of term, the databases of several universities worldwide were hacked. Called “Project WestWind” according to the manifesto of “Team Ghost Shell”, the system intrusions were a protest about changes in modern education, both in terms of rising tuition fees. They also describe a change in the usefulness of higher education, stating “…we have ventured from learning valuable skills that would normally help us be prepared in life, to just, simply memorizing large chunks of text in exchange for good grades”, something I’m sure students may identify with.
After the statement of their cause, Team Ghost Shell provide a list of links to the compromised databases, including universities such as Harvard, John Hopkins, and Imperial. Using the only working link for Imperial takes you to a page filled with data from the RCC Underwater club, containing some names, logins and email addresses of members and administrators. Why they picked on RCC Underwater is unknown, but this does highlight the need for a stronger focus on information security as we increase our daily reliance on technology.
